Eventually, he’ll do the victory tour, and he’ll be fine with all of it, the fans, the tracks, getting the odd rocking chair or resort voucher. Until then, Martin Fennelly writes, Jeff Gordon will just race.

WESLEY CHAPEL — At home this week for a recess Congress perhaps should not have taken, Gus Bilirakis has stayed busy catching up on the concerns of his constituents in Florida’s 12th Congressional District, which are many and varied....

I understand why members of the St. Petersburg City Council aren’t willing to roll over and let the Tampa Bay Rays move to Tampa or anywhere else. I always expected they would put up a fight. It’s what good public servants do.

Regarding immigration reform, you don’t have to be “the last hardboiled egg at the picnic” — a Jeb Bush favorite — to regard as welcome news the latest in a series of judicial rebuffs of President Obama’s eff...

Last week, like millions of Americans, I decided to buy a Powerball ticket. While I was shopping at my local Publix, there was one customer ahead of me at the lottery terminal when the machine went dead — probably a result of overheated demand...